Improvement in combined shirt and drawers



S.G UTMANN. COMBINED SHIRT AND DRAWERS. 110,182,921, Patented Oct. 3,1876.

N.PEIERS. PHOTO-LITHOGRAPNER WASHINGTON. D C,

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SIMEON GUTMANN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT INCOMBINED SHIRT AND DRAWERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 182,921, dated October 3, 1876; application filed June 9, 1876.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, SIMEON GUTMANN, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Compound Shirt and Drawers,whichimprovement is fully set forth in the following specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawing.

The object of my invention is, first, to make an under covering for the entire human body, (except the head, neck, hands, and feet,) by the combination of a pair of drawers and a shirt, so arranged as to meet the requirements of comfort in a single garment; and, second, in the combination, with a shirt provided with a pocket to detain them, of one or more loose or independent bosoms, as shown in the accompanying drawing.

Figure 1 shows thegarment in front view.

The drawers D and shirt S are secured to each other, or continuous into each other, at the waist in front, the shirt-front being opened continuously with the usual opening in the drawers in front, not in the center, however, but on a line deflecting toward the right shoulder, and thereafter deflecting toward the neck, as usual in double-breasted garments. One object of this formation is to provide space for the pocket P, which is intended to receive the lower and free end of the bosoms, one or more, and detain the same in the absence of a vest or outer jacket. The shirt S may, however, be closed in front and opened in the back, as usual in open-backed skirts. The pocket P is intended in that event to be similarly located in the closed front, so as to receive the lower end of the bosom.

The inside of the breast is lined with flannel to protect the chest, and so, also, is that part of the drawers which covers the abdomen.

Figs. 2 and 3 show back views of the garment which is open at the sides 0 0 from the waist down to a point about opposite the hip joints of the wearer, the first having the drawers up and attached to the shirt, and the second having them lowered as far as the openings O 0 permit. The waistband W is provided with a line of button-holes, and the waistband W with two or more rows of buttons correspondingly located, the object of the rows of buttons being to permit the fitting of the same garment to persons of various sizes, within practical limits, by varying the buttons used from side to side, as required.

Fig. 4 shows two false bosoms, B B, intended to be worn with the compound garment described. One of the bosoms, B, is provided with a neck-band, N, which is made long enough to extend around the neck, and provided with button-holes at the ends and at the front center to secure the same to the shirt. The bosom B is attached to B along the upper half sides of each by a flexible hinge, H, consisting of a piece of durable material thinner than the bosoms. l/Vhen open the fronts of B and B face in opposite directions; but when folded they face in the same direction.

The bosom B may be furnished with a loop of cord, E, located opposite the front stud button-hole of B, to assist in detaining it in place, and the fronts may be made both of white material, both of colored material, or one of each, as desired.

Fig. 5 shows the bosoms B and B folded 1n place on the shirt-front, and with the lower ends of the same detained in the pocket P.

The bosoms may be laid aside in working hours, and resumed when work is over.

By this means I produce a single garment which may perform the offices of a pair of drawers of an under and an over ,shirt, and 1n a moments time be made to appear, by the addition of the false bosoms, as satisfactory as if the shirt were of the usual dress form.

The pocketP may be used in any other known form of shirt; or it may be omitted altogether when not required to detain the false bosom, and in that case the shirt S may have the opening, as usual, in the center front 1n line with that in the drawers D. Also, one false bosom may be used instead of two, if desired.

1 claim as my invention 1. The compound under-garment composed of the drawers D, opening vertically in front, and horizontally in the rear, across the middle of the back, and of the shirt S, made continuous with the drawers in front, and made neck-band N, in combination with the false adjustable in the rear by two or more rows of bosom B without neck-band, the two being attaching devices, as shown and described. attached to each other on the side, so as to be 2. A shirt-front, provided with a horizontal capable of folding over each other, as set forth. opening, located across the chest, so as to receive the lower free end of a stiff bosom only SIMEON GUTMANN. and detain it therein, in combination with the Witnesses: bosoms B and B. WM. H. BUTTERWORTH,

3. The false bosom B, provided with the PHILIP WENDLAND. 

